Investigating Music Education - iMUSED

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2020-483

 
Description of research activity:
The iMUSED research group was set up with the aim of deepening the knowledge of music education from multiple perspectives. The different interests it addresses can be grouped into five main lines of research: educational innovation, interdisciplinarity, the study of the curriculum, musical identities and knowledge transfer. The first includes the development of methodologies, resources and approaches that contribute to the reflection on current educational practices, to the re-elaboration of established aims and to the renewal of didactic strategies in line with them. Examples include the development of creativity, the incorporation of ICT and new pedagogical methods, the didactics of music listening and performance, and critical music education. Secondly, interdisciplinarity refers to the search for intersections between music education and other areas of knowledge, both scholarly and academic. In this sense, the educational possibilities of specific repertoires such as stage music or contemporary urban popular music will be explored in order to establish bridges with areas such as social sciences, language or plastic arts. In the same way, the connections with social and...The iMUSED research group was set up with the aim of deepening the knowledge of music education from multiple perspectives. The different interests it addresses can be grouped into five main lines of research: educational innovation, interdisciplinarity, the study of the curriculum, musical identities and knowledge transfer. The first includes the development of methodologies, resources and approaches that contribute to the reflection on current educational practices, to the re-elaboration of established aims and to the renewal of didactic strategies in line with them. Examples include the development of creativity, the incorporation of ICT and new pedagogical methods, the didactics of music listening and performance, and critical music education. Secondly, interdisciplinarity refers to the search for intersections between music education and other areas of knowledge, both scholarly and academic. In this sense, the educational possibilities of specific repertoires such as stage music or contemporary urban popular music will be explored in order to establish bridges with areas such as social sciences, language or plastic arts. In the same way, the connections with social and experimental sciences, communication and audiovisual sciences, special education and emotional education will be explored, as well as the use of musical heritage and the reconstruction of the history of the discipline itself. A third line of research is constituted by the study of the different curricular levels, especially with regard to the prescriptions of educational legislation, the contents programmed in school textbooks, and the practices and considerations of teachers. Fourthly, the identities and subjectivities present in different groups belonging to the field of music education will be studied, such as the professional identities of teachers and the musical identities of students, analysed on the basis of their preferences and cultural reference groups. The aim is to analyse how the different identities influence the teaching and learning processes, and to develop strategies to positively influence the construction of students' identities. Finally, the last line of research corresponds to the transfer of scientific knowledge in music education, aimed at individuals and groups interested in this field, and involves the development of resources, the dissemination of results and the training of teachers. Three of the members of the group (IP Ana María Botella, Rafael Fernández and Rosa Isusi) have been teaching on the Master's Degree in Secondary Education since 2010 and 2014 respectively. Professors Ana María Botella (IP) and Rosa Isusi teach on the Master's Degree in Specific Didactics Research at the Faculty of Teacher Training and, together with Salvador Blasco, supervise theses on the PhD programme in Specific Didactics. Both lecturers also collaborate in the doctoral programme of the Universitat Politècnica de València in the direction of doctoral theses. In addition, the IP Ana María Botella, has a track record of 15 theses supervised in the doctorate programme at the Faculty of Teacher Training and at the University of Salamanca.
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • 1.Investigar diferentes procesos de innovacion educativa en educacion musical: creatividad, TIC, destrezas musicales, educacion musical critica
  • 2.Estudiar diversas posibilidades de interdisciplinariedad con otras areas de conocimiento: ciencias sociales, experimentales, artes visuales
  • 3.Analizar los diferentes niveles del curriculum de ed. musical: legislacion educativa, manuales escolares, y practicas y creencias de los docentes
  • 4.Profundizar en el conocimiento de identidades y subjetividades que pertenecen al ambito de la educacion musical
  • 5.Abordar la transferencia de conocimiento cientifico producido en torno a la ed. musical: elaboracion de recursos, difusion y formacion de docentes
 
Research lines:
  • Interdisciplinarity between music education and other areas of knowledge. .This line will investigate the possible synergies that can be established between music education and other areas such as social, natural and communication sciences, plastic and visual arts, emotional education and special education.
  • Knowledge transfer and dissemination: resource development and teacher training.Transfer and dissemination processes are proposed for social and educational innovation.
  • Innovation in music ed:reflection on teaching practice, re-elaboration of educational purposes and renewal of teaching methodologies .Development of approaches, methodologies and resources aimed at: reflecting on educational practices and processes of cultural reproduction; renewing didactic strategies based on action-oriented research processes; incorporating ICT and new pedagogical methods.
  • Studies on the different curricular levels of music education: the prescribed, edited, declared, taught, realised and hidden curriculum.To approach the culture of music education from the study of the curriculum prescribed in educational legislation, published in textbooks, declared and taught by teachers, realised or acquired by students and hidden or implicit through the standardisation of an epistemic culture.
  • Identities in music education: construction and interaction between the different subjectivities involved in the teaching-learning processes.A study of the musical identities of both music teachers and students from a contemporary perspective that combines discursive, performative and intersectional dimensions in order to understand the relationships that take place in the music classroom.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
ANA MARIA BOTELLA NICOLASDirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
RAFAEL FERNANDEZ MAXIMIANOMemberUniversitat de València
SILVIA MARTINEZ GALLEGOMemberUniversitat de València
JOSE SALVADOR BLASCO MAGRANERMemberUniversitat de València
ROSA MARIA ISUSI FAGOAGAMemberUniversitat de València
PABLO MARIN LIEBANAMemberUniversitat de València
GUILLEM ESCORIHUELA CARBONELLMemberUniversitat de València
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ FERRANDISMemberUniversitat de València
DESAMPARADOS HURTADO SOLERCollaboratorUniversitat de València
LUIS MIGUEL MARZAL RAGACollaboratorConservatori Superior de Música "Salvador Seguí" de Castellóresearcher
CLARA MARTINEZ DELGADOCollaboratorUniversitat de València
CLARA MARTINEZ DELGADOCollaboratorFlorida Centre de Formacióprofessor
MARIA BELEN SANCHEZ GARCIACollaboratorUniversitat de València
MARIA BELEN SANCHEZ GARCIACollaboratorConservatori Superior de Música "Joaquín Rodrigo"Civil servant professor
ESPERANZA CABAÑERO CASTILLOCollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
Inmaculada Retamero GarcíaCollaboratorFundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Universidad Internacional de Valenciaprofessor
Pablo Ramos Ramos CollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
FRANCISCO VENIEL MARTICollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
MARÍA DEL VALLE DE MOYA MARTÍNEZCollaboratorUniversidad de Castilla la Manchatenured university professor
 
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Associated structure:
  • Didactics of Physical, Artistic and Music Education
 
Keywords:
  • interdisciplinarity, music education, holistic learning
  • innovation, dissemination, transfer
  • Innovación educativa, didáctica de la música, TIC, pedagogía crítica, formación del profesorado
  • curriculum, music education, education policy, textbooks, teaching practices
  • Identidades, educación musical, reconocimiento cultural.